On March 5, Cebu police announced that they had arrested two Chinese nationals working at a (POGO) on suspicion of kidnapping three fellow Chinese nationals.

The two were arrested in a house in the Techwood Subdivision, Lapu Lapu City’s Soong Village. During the arrest, the three victims were rescued.

Sadly, this isn’t the first time the POGO industry has been caught up in kidnapping stories.. In January, five Chinese nationals were arrested for kidnapping a female POGO worker of Taiwanese dissent. In the same month, two Vietnamese women were rescued after being abducted by Chinese nationals in Las Pinas City.

Increasingly violent crime, even if unrelated to POGO operations themselves, are becoming a common topic in the news. On February 27, a POGO worker was murdered, shot dead and his companion wounded during an apparent money exchange deal gone awry. When police arrested the suspects involved in the incident, they discovered that the two were holding fake IDs.